Analysis

  • max time kernel
    900s
  • max time network
    453s
  • platform
    windows11-ltsc_2024_x64
  • resource
    win11ltsc2024-20260709-en
  • resource tags

    arch:x64arch:x86image:win11ltsc2024-20260709-enlocale:en-usos:windows11-ltsc_2024-x64systemwindows
  • submitted
    22/07/2026, 12:31

General

  • Target
    Waves Complete 14.0 patch.exe
  • Size 2.5MB
  • Sample260722-pqgrmavepb
  • SHA256 72487d088587e7de31c137c4ef9bf2acd9f96091440910e887a62a1b29397b81
  • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

Malware Config

Signatures

  • Executes dropped EXE 1 IoCs
  • Enumerates physical storage devices 1 TTPs

    Attempts to interact with connected storage/optical drive(s).

  • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery 1 TTPs 3 IoCs

    Attempt gather information about the system language of a victim in order to infer the geographical location of that host.

  • Inno Setup is an open-source installation builder for Windows applications. 3 IoCs

    Inno Setup installer

  • Kills process with taskkill 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken 2 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow 1 IoCs
  • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory 3 IoCs

Processes

  • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Waves Complete 14.0 patch.exe
    "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Waves Complete 14.0 patch.exe"
    1⤵
    • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
    • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
    PID:6076
    • C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-Q2EDJ.tmp\Waves Complete 14.0 patch.tmp
      "C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-Q2EDJ.tmp\Waves Complete 14.0 patch.tmp" /SL5="$400AE,1675945,890368,C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\Waves Complete 14.0 patch.exe"
      2⤵
      • Executes dropped EXE
      • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
      • Suspicious use of FindShellTrayWindow
      • Suspicious use of WriteProcessMemory
      PID:4736
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\taskkill.exe
        "C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe" /f /im WavesLocalServer.exe
        3⤵
        • System Location Discovery: System Language Discovery
        • Kills process with taskkill
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:5912
      • C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.exe
        "C:\Windows\system32\taskkill.exe" /f /im WavesLocalServer.exe
        3⤵
        • Kills process with taskkill
        • Suspicious use of AdjustPrivilegeToken
        PID:4404
  • C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe
    C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe -k GPSvcGroup
    1⤵
      PID:2640
    • C:\Windows\System32\SecurityHealthHost.exe
      \\?\C:\Windows\System32\SecurityHealthHost.exe {08728914-3F57-4D52-9E31-49DAECA5A80A} -Embedding
      1⤵
        PID:5928

      Network

            MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v16

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            Downloads

            Waves Complete 14.0 patch.tmp

            • Path C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Local\Temp\is-Q2EDJ.tmp\Waves Complete 14.0 patch.tmp
            • Size 3.1MB
            • SHA256 af3999744d231b65f744cb05762a1225b8d7f8be495a80acba72bc14473999e1
            • MD5 SHA1 SHA512 SSDEEP TLSH

            memory/4736-6-0x0000000002610000-0x0000000002611000-memory.dmp

            memory/4736-13-0x0000000002610000-0x0000000002611000-memory.dmp

            memory/4736-12-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071B000-memory.dmp

            memory/4736-14-0x0000000000400000-0x000000000071B000-memory.dmp

            memory/6076-1-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E7000-memory.dmp

            memory/6076-11-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E7000-memory.dmp

            memory/6076-15-0x0000000000400000-0x00000000004E7000-memory.dmp